Rabid (1977)
Directed by David Cronenberg · Cinematography by René Verzier
R91 min53 frames
HorrorScience Fiction
You can't trust your mother, your best friend, the neighbor next door…One minute they're perfectly normal, the next…RABID!
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What is Rabid about?
After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a retractable, vampiric stinger in her armpit and a thirst for human blood.
Rabid is a 1977 body horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore, Joe Silver, and Howard Ryshpan. The film follows Rose Miller, a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing a surgical operation, develops an orifice under one of her arms that hides a phallic/clitoral stinger she uses to feed on human blood, spreading a disease from the Quebec countryside into urban Montreal.
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What does the cinematography of Rabid look like?
Sampled across 53 frames, the coverage of Rabid leans on medium shots (40% of the sample) and close-ups (34%). Cinematographer René Verzier keeps 49% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 57% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 60% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings. The production design places the film in the 1970s.
What is the color palette of Rabid?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Rabid (1977) are #32302d, #d1d1ce, #51524d, #d0cbb1, #4d473b, #0d1011 — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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